Tallow named Best Local Restaurant by the Good Food Guide

Run by husband-and-wife team Rob and Donna Taylor,​​ formerly of popular gastropub The Compasses Inn in Crundale, the restaurant has won a Bib Gourmand and was ranked at number 91 in the National Restaurant Awards in 2022.

The list follows a six-week process where the Good Food Guide​ received more than 37,000 nominations with Tallow eventually being named Best Local Restaurant by the guidebook.

"Tallow stood out, head and shoulders above what is a very strong list this year. For a chef of this quality to be so happily focused on running a neighbourhood restaurant is extraordinary," says the Good Food Guide's Editor, Elizabeth Carter.

"There's a level of commitment here that would sit happily in many top restaurants. Everything is beautifully thought through, from food you really want to eat – delicious, simple, seasonal – to the remarkably at-ease service and the care of customers."

The guide has also named a number of regional winners that include Homestead Kitchen in the north-east, the Kinneuchar Inn in Scotland, Rocket & Rye in Wales, Tropea in central and the east of England, Sparrows in the north-west, Seasonality in the south-east, and Wild Artichokes in the south-west.

Les 2 Garçons in Crouch End was named London’s Best Local Restaurant by the guide.